Sam Houston
By: James L. Haley.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
Subjects: Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.; United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.; Governors -- Texas -- Biography.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography.; Texas -- History -- To 1846.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston's momentous career and the complex man behind it. Haley's fifteen years of research and writing have produced possibly the most complete, most personal, and most readable Sam Houston biography ever written."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-493) and index.